Key deals

UK based marine safety company Cosalt is in financial trouble and seeking funds to be able to continue trading - but it appears that there may be a glimmer of hope after…

Trade association Interferry says that ferry operators in northern Europe face a near impossible choice in trying to meet the 2015 deadline for ultra low sulphur emissions from bunker fuel.

Wärtsilä announced on Tuesday that an agreement for the acquisition of UK engineering firm Hamworthy plc has been reached.

Long awaited plans to modernise the UKs HM Coastguard have been announced by Shipping Minister Mike Penning.

IMO secretary general, Efthimios E.Mitropoulos told delegates at the 27th IMO assembly this week that piracy and ships emissions have been central themes of the organisation’s work this year.

It has come to the notice of Mercator Media, publisher of ‘Maritime Journal’, that bogus organisations are continuing to contact subscribers, advertisers and exhibitors, supposedly on behalf of Mercator Media.

The commercial and leisure marine sectors are being asked to help support the UK based Mary Rose Trust in a big Christmas raffle to raise £10K for the charity.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents all sectors and trades of the global shipping industry, has produced a briefing document for government climate change negotiators.

Since it was launched at Seawork earlier this year, BMF Commercial Marine has gone from strength to strength and now has over 100 members working in the small craft commercial sector.

The public is being asked to get involved in the consultation process over whether an area of Dorset in the UK should be designated a new marine protected area.

Wärtsilä has signed a cooperation agreement at Europort with Finnish and Dutch shipyards to facilitate installation of scrubbers in the marine market.

Braveheart Shipping BV has commissioned Dutch boatbuilders Javelin International and KD Workboats to build a new windfarm vessel to expand its workboat fleet.

Ferguson Shipbuilders in Scotland has been selected to build the world’s first two sea-going RoRo diesel electric hybrid ferries.

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has taken over operation of the International Data Exchange (IDE), the central node of the global Long Range Identification and Tracking system (LRIT), from the US…

A 25 million tonne marine debris field created by the Japanese tsunami back in March currently afloat in the North Pacific is set to reach Hawaii by this winter, according to experts.

Transas Marine has been working on a new anti-piracy solution in response to the ongoing threat in Somalia.

The first milestone in the construction of the new locks at the Panama Canal has been reached, thanks to the Jan De Nul Group.

Celebrities are demonstrating their underwater skills for charity in a new underwater photography exhibition that opens today in Brighton.